Scot Goes Popcast

James Kelly

I'm James Kelly, and the Scot Goes Popcast accompanies my long-running pro-independence blog Scot Goes Pop, which has a particular emphasis on opinion poll analysis.

  1. 20h ago

    Scot Goes Popcast Episode 93: Nick Robinson and the dehumanisation of Palestinians in official BBC discourse

    Some thoughts on the deeply disturbing BBC radio interview in which Nick Robinson demanded that Green leader Zack Polanski agree that Israelis have a right to a safe homeland, and Polanski answered in the affirmative - but Robinson didn't recognise it as an answer because he seemed to be starting from the preconception that an Israeli homeland only counts as 'real' if Israel gets to expel Palestinians from it or oppress Palestinians within it. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the channel continue to grow, donations are welcome at my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/jameskellysgp

  2. 5d ago

    Scot Goes Popcast Episode 92: Tories' plan to impose new nuclear power stations on Scotland means they have repudiated "The Vow"

    Andrew Bowie's announcement that a UK Tory government would impose new nuclear power stations in Scotland means that the Tories will be stripping planning powers from the Scottish Parliament, which have been devolved since right from the start in 2014. This constitutes a clear repudiation of The Vow, which promised that the Scottish Parliament was "permanent" and would be granted "extensive new powers". A million miles from any sense of permanence or entrenchment, the Scottish Parliament now looks like an extraordinarily vulnerable institution that is subject to having its powers arbitrarily stripped away at any time. The case for revisiting the referendum result of 2014, which was secured on an utterly false prospectus, has never been more overwhelming. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the channel continue to grow, donations are welcome at my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/jameskellysgp

  3. Oct 4

    Scot Goes Popcast Episode 91: Watch out for ORCS! Rory Stewart thrillingly brings back "The Middleland"

    Just when you thought it was safe to take a nice day out in the Southern Uplands, or the Lake District, or the Yorkshire Dales, our old pal Rory Stewart has made the whole thing seem a lot more scary once again by lumping all these places together and rebranding them as a Game Of Thrones-style fantasy medieval kingdom called "The Middleland". It's a wheeze he first dreamt up in the run-up to the 2014 Scottish independence referendum in order to hoodwink people into thinking the south of Scotland is not "really" Scottish and is instead part of a "middle" grey zone along with a big chunk of the north of England, and can thus only really be described as "British". Just one snag - none of this has any basis in historical fact. The territory Rory claims as being part of "The Middleland" was actually split in medieval times between the Brythonic-speaking Kingdom of Strathclyde (part of what Welsh people call their Hen Ogledd, meaning Old North) and the Old English-speaking Germanic kingdom of Northumbria. Far from jointly representing some sort of unified pan-British culture, the peoples of those two entities wouldn't even have been able to communicate with each other unless they happened to speak a bit of Latin. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the channel continue to grow, donations are welcome at my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/jameskellysgp

  4. Oct 1

    Scot Goes Popcast Episode 90: Burnham's HYPOCRISY - the 2016 EU vote can be revisited but the 2014 indyref result is sacred forever

    It's official: Andy Burnham has introduced a new time zone in Scotland. Or presumably he must have done, because how else can we explain that he thinks the 2014 independence referendum was basically last week and can't possibly be revisited, but that it's totes cool to consider overturning the UK-wide EU referendum result of 2016, because that was TEN YEARS AGO and that's SUCH a long time? How much more blatant does the hypocrisy need to get before journalists start asking the obvious questions? The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the channel continue to grow, donations are welcome at my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/jameskellysgp

  5. Sep 29

    Scot Goes Popcast Episode 89: Burnham uses the loss of his father as an excuse for stripping Scotland of its democratic rights

    In what must be one of the most despicable stunts in any party leader's conference speech, Andy Burnham today attempted to use the recent loss of his father to guilt-trip the people of Scotland into thinking they had to just accept him trampling all over their democratic rights to choose their own country's future. I don't think he'll get away with it, and in this video I explain why. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the channel continue to grow, donations are welcome at my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/jameskellysgp

  6. Sep 26

    Scot Goes Popcast Episode 88: Is Robin McAlpine hallucinating, or is he trying to gaslight us?

    Whatever anyone may think of Robin McAlpine's views, he is usually a master of fact and of detail. So it is something of a jolt to see him make two massive howlers about SNP independence strategy in his most recent piece. Is it really possible that he could be so poorly informed about something as fundamental as this? Or are we being gaslighted? The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the channel continue to grow, donations are welcome at my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/jameskellysgp

  7. Sep 24

    Scot Goes Popcast Episode 87: Mega-poll shows SNP will hold BALANCE OF POWER

    The first YouGov MRP mega-poll of the Burnham era is a massive wake-up call for Labour, because in spite of the ground they have recovered from Reform UK, they are still nowhere near to being on course for an overall majority at the next UK general election. If the YouGov figures are exactly right, the SNP would hold the balance of power, potentially giving them a golden opportunity to finally break the deadlock on an independence referendum - providing they can resist the inevitable pressure from the unionist media to sell their support to Burnham for nothing. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the channel continue to grow, donations are welcome at my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/jameskellysgp

  8. Sep 22

    Scot Goes Popcast Episode 86: HUGE milestone for Scottish independence in new Norstat poll

    When Andy Burnham famously said a couple of weeks ago that Scotland could have an independence referendum if it wanted one, but that he conveniently wasn't "aware" that any such public support existed, he almost seemed to be daring pro-independence outlets to call his bluff by commissioning an opinion poll testing whether there was majority support for a referendum. That has now happened in a Norstat poll commissioned by Believe in Scotland, which also contains results on the standard independence question. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the channel continue to grow, donations are welcome at my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/jameskellysgp

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I'm James Kelly, and the Scot Goes Popcast accompanies my long-running pro-independence blog Scot Goes Pop, which has a particular emphasis on opinion poll analysis.

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